Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu2 Severity: wishlist This package has a large number of outstanding bugs, which are unlikely (at the present rate) to be resolved either in Debian, or for that matter upstream (I doubt many upstreams check the Debian BTS).
On the other hand, a major rationale for the existence of the package, namely to ease the convenient installation of a wide range of Emacs modes, no longer exists, as ELPA, Marmalade and el-get all cater to this. ELPA ships with Emacs 24, and el-get is packaged in Debian, so perhaps it would be more profitable now to defer to them: they are often more up-to-date than the Debian package, and are better linked to upstream. emacs-goodies-el has no rdepends, so this would be quite safe to do. It could usefully retain any files that are not packaged in one of the above-mentioned Emacs repos, though arguably any such files should be submitted to those repos. A good place to start with deciding what to remove from emacs-goodies-el would be packages with many requests for updates, e.g. markdown-mode. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on: ii bash 4.2-5ubuntu1 ii dpkg 1.16.7ubuntu6 ii emacs24 [emacsen] 24.2+1-1ubuntu2 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu2 Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el recommends: ii dict 1.12.0+dfsg-5 ii perl-doc 5.14.2-13ubuntu0.2 ii wget 1.13.4-3ubuntu1 emacs-goodies-el suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
